I Grew Up With Nothing,

My Mother Kept Asking Me, "when Are You Going To Do A Gospel Album?" And I've Always Wanted To Do A Gospel Album. Everybody Was Going On About It, So Mom Started Hounding Me More.

I Could Have Done A Hundred Songs, Really. It Was Hard To Narrow Them Down, Because I Tried To Pick Songs For The Most Part That Actually Did Have Some Effect On Me Or Influenced Me In The Past.

If Anything Good Came Out Of 9/11, To Me, Was That People Were So Cynical About The World - All You Hear About On The News Is All The Bad Stuff Everyday, But What Was Refreshing To Me Was After That, You Saw How Many Good People There Are Out There. For Every One Bad One, There's A Thousand Good Ones.

I Grew Up With Nothing, So Whenever I Got To Where I Could Have Something I Felt Like I Needed To Have Everything I Couldn't Have When I Was Young.

He's Written Some Great Songs. I Thought That "blues Man" Was A Perfect Song For Me To Do As A Tribute.